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Our lead story: in a landmark Yukon court case, Jared Skookum pleads guilty to manslaughter in the overdose death of Liard First Nation member Stephanie Pye, to whom he’d sold the opioids fentanyl and etizolam.

Our lead story: families of loved ones thought to be buried in a Winnipeg-area landfill express relief that a search appears imminent, as the Manitoba government announces the first of five stages is now complete, including a budget and necessary approvals.

Our lead story: more on Monday’s announcement by the government of Manitoba about its search for the remains of at least two Indigenous women at the Prairie Green landfill, a search to be conducted differently from what was proposed in previously-released feasibility studies.

Our lead story: Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says the movement of material needed in order to carry out the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women's remains will commence this month.

Our lead story: The multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman—wraps up Monday in Winnipeg, with closing arguments from the defence and the Crown.

Our lead story: ‘Project Surge,’ a Winnipeg police initiative aimed at addressing youth violence, finds many of the youth they’ve identified and arrested are repeatedly in contact with police.